Media Studies A-Level
Conformity and departure from structure
What Conformity and departure from structure means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Judging how far a text conforms to the model, showing which stages are present, absent, reordered or left unresolved and explaining the effect on the audience.
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- Textual evidence for narrative stages
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